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    "id": 800202,
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    "content": "(WARMA), an institution created by the Water Act of 2002 and mandated to ensure rational and effective management of water resources; FURTHER CONCERNED THAT WARMA does not have a framework on licensing, construction, usage, sharing of dam water resources, insurance and inspection of earth dams and that currently there are no standards which dam owners are required to adhere to and comply with; ALSO CONCERNED THAT although WARMA knew that the Solai Dam posed a great risk to Kenyans living downstream, they did little or nothing to avert the danger and that the Solai Dam tragedy appears to have occurred as a result of negligence; NOTING WITH CONCERN the sad revelations following an investigative report by Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) on the Solai Dam tragedy that point to ignorance and a suspicious relationship between the owners of the Dam (the Mansukh Patel family), the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) and WARMA officials in their singular and joint omission that resulted in failure to act on early warning information given to them about the impeding danger, and the continued failure by NEMA to put in place standards on quality of dam walls and regulations to address the downstream effects and impact of dams whose walls burst, especially the protection and restoration of the flora and fauna and the environment in general; APPREHENSIVE THAT with the continuing heavy rainfall, now and in future, such incidents as the Solai one could happen elsewhere in Kenya; DESIREROUS of the need to take steps towards ensuring that similar man-made disasters are prevented from recurring; NOW THEREFORE the Senate resolves to establish a select committee to a) holistically investigate and establish the circumstances leading to the Solai Dam Tragedy; b) propose modalities for compensation of all the families of the deceased victims and the surviving families; c) ensure the Dam owner makes compensation in regard to the destroyed environment, especially trees and other vegetation and top fertile soils; and d) propose measures to mitigate any such eventual disasters especially for Counties that are prone to floods and landslides. AND THAT the following Senators be members of the Select Committee (i) Sen. Fatuma Dullo, CBS, MP; (ii) Sen. Mithika Linturi, MP; (iii) Sen. Sakaja Johnson, MP; (iv) Sen. (Eng.) Ephraim Maina, EBS, MP; The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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